Billionaire tech entreprenuer, Elon Musk has castigated the ‘woke’ movement that led to his son transitioning to a female and dropping his surname.
Musk said his son was “killed” by the “woke mind virus” after he was tricked into agreeing to gender-affirming care procedures.
While speaking in an interview with psychologist and conservative commentator Dr. Jordan Peterson, the X and Tesla owner called gender-reassignment surgery “child mutilation and sterilization.”
He then discussed his 20-year-old child Vivian Jenna Wilson, who he said underwent the gender reassignment procedures during the pandemic.
“I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys,” Musk told Peterson in a Daily Wire interview during which he referred to his child by their former name.
“This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion and I was told (Musk’s child) might commit suicide.”
The SpaceX founder claimed the process is done to children “who are far below the age of consent” and said he agreed with Peterson’s belief that anyone who promotes the practice should go to prison.
“I was tricked into doing this,” Musk said. “I lost my son, essentially. They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason. The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead.”
Musk went on to say that the experience set him on a mission.
“I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that,” Musk said. “And we’re making some progress.”
It would be recalled that Musk’s estranged child was legally granted her name and gender change at age 18 at the Santa Monica courthouse in California on June 22, 2022.
She said the name change was due to gender identity and an apparent dislike of her father Musk, according to a petition filed on April 18, 2022, in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” Wilson wrote in the petition.
Wilson’s mother is Justine Wilson, a Canadian author who divorced Musk in 2008; the couple shares six children.
